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Perception Quotes
"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
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"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
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"Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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"Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception."
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"It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide."
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"On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes."
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"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
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"The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie."
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"If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them."
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"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."
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"It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures."
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"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."
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"In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli."
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"What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again."
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"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."
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"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
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"Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more."
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"The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer."
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"You are very kind," he said. "Very wrong, but very kind."
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"Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception."
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"For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are."
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"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
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"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."
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"He who has foresight has more than two eyes."
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"The really explicit phrase is doors of perception."
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
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"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity."
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"Your failure may put smiles on people's faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don't be deceived, it's just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!"
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"An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed."
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"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
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"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
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"... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance."
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"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."
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"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."
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"When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide."
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"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
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"You must learn to ignore what people say, Sebastian murmured, coming to her. Standing behind her, he rested his fingers lightly on her shoulders, causing her to start a little. "You'll be much happier that way. Suddenly his voice was tipped with amusement. "I've learned that while gossip about others is often true, it's never true when it is about oneself."
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"I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy."
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"Close your eyes. Now see the world with your mind, and feel the joy of your magnificent life."
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"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."
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"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."
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"Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."
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"Taken together, it's almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That's because your mind is hardwired for ancient Greek. And the ADHD-you're impulsive, can't sit still in the classroom. That's your battlefield reflexes. In a real fight, they'd keep you alive. As for the attention problems, that's because you see too much, Percy, not too little. Your senses are better than a regular mortal's."
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"What is reality today was but a dream and an imagination not that long ago."
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"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."
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